PAID PIPERS
by Thomas A. Droleskey
A recent issue of CHRIST OR CHAOS examined Los
Angeles Archbishop Roger Cardinal Mahony's cozy
relationship with archdiocesan donors who had also
contributed hefty sums of money to support the pro-
abortion Democratic Party. Cardinal Mahony even went so
far as to write a letter to then-President Bill Clinton
in support of a pardon of a convicted drug dealer whose
father was a major contributor to the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles and the Democratic Party. Cardinal Mahony later
said he was deceived by those who had importuned him.
However, he had indicated his readiness to do the bidding
of those who believe it is perfectly appropriate to
support the candidacies of those who promote the mystical
destruction of our Lord in the person of unborn children.
A man who has bestowed papal honors on two purveyors of
indecency and immorality in our culture, Rupert Murdoch
and Roy Disney (both of whom are Masons), demonstrated
his utter lack of regard for how stained the money he has
accepted from wealthy contributors is stained by the
blood of the innocent.
Well, an article uncovered by Linda Muller, who runs
the website for Patrick J. Buchanan, reveals that blood
money flows freely into the coffers of supposedly pro-
life politicians in "conservative" Orange County,
California. Written in 1998 by R. Scott Moxley of the
ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY, the article documented how the
notorious baby-killer, Edward Allred, a self-professed
"conservative, Reaganite Republican," had donated
$436.050 to various "pro-life" politicians. Allred has
made a fortune killing babies. He owns ranches and
quarter-horse racetracks. (One of the latter in New
Mexico also features a gambling casino.) He starts
killing babies early in the morning and does not finish
dismembering them until around midnight. Reporter Moxley
quoted Allred, who cooperated with the article, as saying
that part of the reason for his commitment to the
practice of abortion was his belief that he was helping
to ameliorate social problems caused by urban poverty and
illegal immigration. Indeed, Allred is a latter-day
embodiment of the ethos of Margaret Sanger, who believed
in contraception and "family planning" as ways to
engineer "undersirables" (blacks, the deformed, the
retarded) out of our midst. He is unabashed in his
support of what he does.
Allred has supported the careers of U.S.
Representative Dana Rohrabacher, California State
Senators John Lewis and Ross Johnson, and California
Assemblymen Curt Pringle (who ran unsuccessfully in 1998
for California State Treasurer) and Scott Baugh. He also
support then-State Treasurer Matt Fong, who lost his
Senate bid to pro-abortion Barbara Boxer (whose daughter
is married to Hugh Rodham, Hillary's little brother)
after he switched his position from "pro-life" to "pro-
choice." As I note all of the time, no one who supports a
single exception to the sanctity of innocent human life
is pro-life and should not be referred to as being pro-
life. A person who makes even one exception to the
sanctity and inviolability of innocent human life is less
pro-abortion than others but he is not pro-life. That
being noted (again and again and again), it is
interesting to wonder whether Allred's largesse to Fong,
for example, caused him to changed his position from his
qualified, conditional opposition to some abortions to
his embrace of abortion as a matter of a woman's
"choice."
Allred knows his marks very well. He told reporter
Moxley of the ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY back in 1998 that
"abortion was settled a long time ago." He knows that
establishment politicians who give lip service to being
"pro-life" are not going to threaten Roe v. Wade and the
many policies passed by Congress to support both chemical
and surgical abortions. He is perfectly content to fund
people who mouth a few platitudes now and then about how
"terrible" abortion is but whose first priority is
economic prosperity, something he holds very near and
dear to the heart which so coldly beats while he stops
the beating of the hearts of the innocent in their
mothers' wombs. Allred knows that careerist politicians
care only about being elected as an end in and of itself.
They are willing to take money from almost any source in
order to advance their careers. Clever, astute man.
It would take a careful examination of the records
of the Federal Election Commission (as well as the
various boards of elections and state election
commissions) to determine how many more Edward Allreds
there are in the country. How many other baby-killers
contribute to supposedly "pro-life" politicians as a
means of curbing whatever tendencies they might have to
advance the cause of objective justice founded in truth
is an open question. It is certainly the case that many
leading politicians who are conditionally opposed to some
abortions accept hard money from donors who are corporate
executives whose companies helped to fund Planned
Parenthood and related organizations. This helps to
explain why candidates deemed to be "pro-life" vote to
fund Title X funding of domestic "family planning"
organizations while still being labeled "pro-life" by the
very misnamed National Right to Life Committee (as I
pointed out in a recent issue of CHRIST OR CHAOS). Apart
from the fact that the events which have been unfolding
since the Renaissance and the Protestant Revolt have led
to a matter-of-fact acceptance of the secularist and
religiously indifferentist ethos which defines our social
life, part of the explanation for the reticence of "pro-
life" politicians to advance the cause of the restoration
of innocent human life rests with the simple reality that
they are paid pipers who sing for their dinner, that is,
for the money which will enable them to continue on the
public dole (all the while receiving awards and honors
for their "commitment" to the pro-life cause).
"Conservatives" rightly denounced then-President
Bill Clinton for the way in which he sold himself to the
highest bidder in his desperate, despicable efforts to
raise campaign cash in 1995 and 1996. Money was taken
from donors who served as funnels for the Red Chinese
government, Russian arms merchants, convicted drug
dealers, and other nefarious figures. Clinton's mendacity
had a direct impact on the policies his administration
adopted with respect to Red China. And there was the
appearance of a great deal of impropriety in the rash of
pardons for the Rich and the famous who received a
Christmas present on January 20, 2001, from the outgoing
president. Why, then, are "conservatives" so slow to
denounce the contributions of baby-killers? It's really
very simple: getting elected as an end in and of itself
is more important than refusing the money of those who
destroy the innocent unborn methodically and in cold
blood with black hearts.
A feeler was made to me by a supporter of my 1998
New York State Right to Life primary effort against then-
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato who had contacts with the
campaign of then-U.S. Representative Charles Schumer. The
fellow told me that Schumer's financial backers had let
him know that they could send a significant amount of
money my way. Obviously, it was in Schumer's interest to
have D'Amato lose the Right to Life Party line, which had
provided him with his margin of victory in 1980 and 1992.
However, I was running not to cause trouble for Al
D'Amato nor to help elect the fully pro-abortion Charles
Schumer. I waged my primary effort because I was fully
pro-life and D'Amato, who supported the confirmation of
the pro-aborts Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer ‹
and who supported Title X funding with pride and with
enthusiasm ‹ was not. If there is going to be a political
party which stands for no exceptions to the sanctity of
innocent human life, then it has to have candidates who
are completely pro-life. As it turned out, D'Amato lost
to Schumer even though he defeated me and retained the
Right to Life Party line precisely because he tried to
portray himself as a man who understood the "pro-choice"
position, a man who boasted of his support for exceptions
to the sanctity of innocent human life in the womb.
However, I was not about to accept any blood money from
Charles Schumer. I told the fellow who approached me with
this proposition in June of 1998, "That's the Devil's
money. I want nothing to do with it." The point of my
campaign was not to defeat Al D'Amato at all costs. It
was to keep the life issue visible in the election and to
have a forum in the general election wherein some voters
interested in paying attention to the campaign would have
heard an articulate and rational defense of the primacy
of the binding precepts of the Divine positive law and
the natural law over us men and our civil societies
rather than what D'Amato gave them (sloughing off the
life issue as a matter of opinion, a la George W. Bush
and Bob Dole). Better to lose an election than lose your
soul.
The paid pipers in Congress and our state
legislatures certainly sing the tunes of those who pay
them. We have to understand that we must only sing the
tune of the One who paid for our salvation by the
shedding of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the
Holy Cross. Indeed, this month of July is dedicated to
the Precious Blood of Jesus. As long as we remind
ourselves of the fact that our ransom from the power of
sin and eternal death has been purchased by the Blood of
the Divine Redeemer (which splattered all over His
Immaculate Mother), we will be able to resist being
bought and paid for by the merchants who spill innocent
blood so readily in this culture of death.
Most Precious Blood of Jesus, save us!
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Dr. Thomas Droleskey, speaker and lecturer, is a
professor of political science, the author of CHRIST IN
THE VOTING BOOTH and THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS
CONDITION (www.hopeofstmonica.com), and editor of the
CHRIST OR CHAOS newsletter.
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